The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is seeking public input on potential approaches to improve the permitting of incidental take of bald and golden eagles. The bald eagle’s recovery is one of the United States’ most important wildlife conservation success stories. […]
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Present on many beaches every day of the year, rip currents are powerful, narrow channels of water that move quickly away from shore. Despite causing more than 100 fatalities annually in the U.S, according to the USLA, many people still do
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The National Deer Association (NDA) welcomes the recently-released report, ‘Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful’, from the U.S. Departments of the Interior (DOI), Agriculture (USDA) and Commerce (DOC), and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), outlining a locally
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The 2021 early teal hunting season arrives this Saturday (Sept. 11) and Texas hunters can once again expect a good season. Habitat conditions across much of the state are in outstanding shape which is a great sign going into the
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By the time this story reaches you Tropical Storm Nicholas will have made landfall somewhere on the Middle Texas Coast. It is expected to produce a considerable storm surge for a storm of its size but the biggest concern is
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Ever wonder where redfish move during both their immature and mature cycles? Ever wonder how old they get? Read on… For the first three years of their lives red drum live in the bays or in the surf zone near
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Orange County Game Wardens received a call from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch reporting several deputies were attending to an alligator near Bridge City. A game warden responded to the popular fishing spot and discovered three teenagers had caught
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is currently accepting applications for their 65th Texas Game Warden Cadet class. As fully commissioned peace officers, game wardens are responsible for the enforcement of Texas laws across the state including water safety,
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Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) officials received confirmation of anthrax in a captive white-tailed deer herd on a Val Verde County premises on July 11, 2021. This is the first anthrax case in Texas this year. The premises is located
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If you could schedule a hunt during a 7 day cycle that produces more big bucks than any other time in most of Texas, would you? Well, there is still time. Since the advent of the youth-only season we at
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When I wore a younger man’s clothes, the question of the best place to hunt for deer often came to my mind. I can remember hours spent pondering this very thought while waiting for a whitetail to magically appear. As
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On Sunday, Aug. 29, Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded to a call of a woman injured in an attack by an aggressive moose near Winter Park. Wildlife officers learned the victim, a woman from Boulder, was injured between 4:30 and
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrest three gang members and a convicted child sex offender this week. Monday afternoon, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents apprehended and identified an El Salvadoran man within a group of 25
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has released an updated survey to gather public input on spotted seatrout management options. The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) directed the LDWF to conduct another survey on spotted seatrout management options prior
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AUSTIN— The Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPW) Commission will hold a special meeting on proposed rules related to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Earlier this year, the discovery of CWD in six deer breeding facilities necessitated the filing of emergency rules
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Do not believe it! A graphic, incorporating a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) logo, is circulating on social media erroneously stating that LDWF will not issue new hunting licenses to persons who can’t show proof of a COVID-19
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In 2020, Texans took advantage of the outdoors and hit the waters in droves, driving recreational boating accidents to a 30 year high. Outreach efforts by Texas Game Wardens and community partners have resulted in a 24 percent decrease in
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In a decision that restores critical Clean Water Act protections for small headwater streams and wetlands across the country, a federal judge has vacated the 2020 “Navigable Waters Protection Rule”. Over the past two years, Trout Unlimited scientists have documented how drafters
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If you fish for long enough, it’s inevitable – sooner or later, you’ll snag a seagull. What now? Once you reel a squawking, flapping, kicking gull into the boat, the most important thing is to grab a rag or towel
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Traditions tagging of billfish for science produce very valuable data, especially with TBF’s and the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) tagging databases spanning decades. In turn, the data helps support some management strategies that can help recreational fishing. The large
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